Change

Adapt, cope, remain flexible and foster a positive attitude amidst life's ups and downs.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

My Diverse Blog Topics Demonstrate My Struggle To Focus On One Topic By Attempting To Categorize Many Interesting Tings Into Themes

Sunday, July 3, 2011

The Thinker presides over the Gates to Hell.  Is this symbolically warning us to avoid over thinking our paradox of Being and Nothingness.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Keep the Faith


“I know the path: it is straight and narrow
It is like the edge of a sword.
I rejoice to walk on it.
I weep when I slip.
God’s word is:
‘He who strives never perishes.’
I have implicit faith in that promise.
Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times.
I shall not lose faith."


- Gandhi 

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Random Thoughts




“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
(Kahlil Gibran - Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer, 1883 – 1931)


“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
(Swami Shivananda - Indian Yoga master, Physician, Monk and Founder of The Divine Life Society, 1887-1963)


“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.
We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
(Charles Baudelaire - French poet, 1821-1867)


"Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically"
(Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)


Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.
(Aimé Césaire - French poet, author and politician, 19132008)




HOPE FUELS MOTIVATION








“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
(Samuel Smiles - Scottish author, 1812-1904)



Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Keep the Faith




“I know the path: it is straight and narrow.

It is like the edge of a sword.

I rejoice to walk on it. I weep when I slip.

God’s word is:‘He who strives never perishes.’

I have implicit faith in that promise.

Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times.

I shall not lose faith.”



-Mahatma Gandhi



Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Inequities can be addressed by committed people taking a stand against them.



"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Quotes about Liberal Ideals

Winston Churchill said, "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."




Robert Frost said, “A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.”



"However much I am at the mercy of the world I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end."
- Albert Schweitzer



Friday, March 11, 2011

Accept the Challenge

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
- George S. Patton Jr.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Priorities need to be established and focused on to accomplish your goals.

PAY:

Prioritize your
Activities by
Yield 

TRY NEW THINGS

"It's not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with the sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
(Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th US President and 1906 Nobel Peace Prize-winner.)

Friday, July 16, 2010

Wallace Stevens

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 


Among twenty snowy mountains, 
The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. 
II 
I was of three minds, 
Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. 
III 
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime. 
IV
A man and a woman Are one. 
A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. 
V
I do not know which to prefer, 
The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, 
The blackbird whistling Or just after. 
VI 
Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. 
The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. 
The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. 
VII 
On thin men of Haddam, 
Why do you imagine golden birds? 
Do you not see how the blackbird 
Walks around the feet Of the women about you? 
VIII 
I know noble accents And lucid, 
escapable rhythms; 
But I know, too, 
That the blackbird is involved In what I know. 
IX 
When the blackbird flew out of sight, 
It marked the edge Of one of many circles. 
At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, 
Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. 
XI 
 He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. 
Once, a fear pierced him, 
In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. 
XII 
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. 
XIII 
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing And it was going to snow. 
The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.


-Wallace Stevens


Sunday, July 11, 2010

Self-Respect is an empowering emotion that can be cultivated.

—Thoreau said,

"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness." — Journal, 21 January 1838


Have a clear idea of the person you wish to be then begin acting like you are already that person, show compassion and do random acts of kindness if that is your goal. Start now, where you are with the tools at hand.